Looking Back: Matinee at the Bijou
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
One of the best things about Saturday afternoons* for a couple of blissful years in the early ’80s was the PBS series Matinee at the Bijou, which in my neck of the woods aired on NJN. A cartoon or two, a serial, a newsreel, a short subject, and a movie… I was glued to the set, and the cheesier the film, the better. For the life of me, I can’t remember a single plot of a single one of the films, but at the time, I caught Matinee every chance I got.
And then, as abruptly as I came across it, it stopped. This tends to happen when I like something on television; I get into something and it promptly gets taken off the air. I eventually developed a complex of sorts, thinking that I was somehow cursed. Maybe I was putting a hex on all these shows? You can imagine my relief when I checked out the Wikipedia entry on the show yesterday, and found out it wasn’t my fault. (more…)
At what point does politics become pathology?